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> Yes but the police can't start occupying my house or deny me access to it because I wasn't home to let them in With a search warrant, they can. You can be k
by frogblast 2y ago
> Yes but the police can't start occupying my house or deny me access to it because I wasn't home to let them in
With a search warrant, they can. You can be kept out of your home until they complete the search and seizing of the items named in the warrant. Depending on what is being searched for (excavating your basement looking for bodies?) that could take quite some time.
So the Tesla situation getting press isn't because the precedent is new, it's because most Americans (many in this thread included) don't understand what the law has already been since long before Teslas ever existed, and are surprised at what they find.
- woooooo 2y agoTaking your frickin car is new. A judge made a decision that past jurisprudence applies to towing cars that happen to have cameras nearby, nobody was doing it until that first warrant got signed.
- bastawhiz 2y agoThe difference is that when the police are done, my house is still in the same spot. In this case, my car is gone. The police aren't going to put it back.
- pcaharrier 2y agoI dealt directly with search warrants for a handful of years and this is correct.